Nearly 6,000 Pounds Of Methamphetamine
Seized By Los Angeles DEA Agents In Nationwide Operation To Disrupt
Cartel ‘Transportation Hubs’
LAPPL News Watch
September 11, 2020
Dozens of people were arrested, and more than 5,000 pounds of
methamphetamine and nearly $16 million was seized in the Southern
California area amid a nationwide operation to disrupt the Mexican
cartels’ drug “transportation hubs.”
The six-month-long “Operation
Crystal Shield” launched on Feb. 20 after the DEA identified nine major
methamphetamine trafficking hubs: Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix,
Houston, El Paso, Dallas, St. Louis, New Orleans and Atlanta.
The DEA
says these nine cities together accounted for more than 75% of the
methamphetamine seized in 2019.
The Los Angeles Field Division – which
includes includes all of Southern California from Orange to San Luis
Obispo counties, as well as Las Vegas/Reno, Hawaii, Guam and Saipan –
accounted for 16 investigations, 34 arrests, and the seizure of 5,752
pounds of methamphetamine, more than $15.9 million in drug proceeds and
three firearms.
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